Recent content by Calvin45

That’s sad and frustrating for those who use it I’m sure. I can’t stand that, it seems every company in this business expands their offerings faster than they can actually keep up with demand. I understand trying to cover as many bases and serve as many customers as possible but I do wish...

Very cool! That thing actually looks slippery as all get out for such a light bullet, trajectory ought to be nuts out of a 6.5-300 haha. I’m already computing things in my head for a 80-87 ish grain AHT .257 cal for the ultimate hold on hair round haha. And of course a .30 cal!

Holy smokes Brent I’m glad you’re still with us. Prayers for your body and also for your mind. I’ve never suffered what I’d consider greatly myself (though odds are that will happen at some point I understand), but have been around a lot of it. My mother has had 9 surgeries at this point on...

Hey that’s the same idea as guns not being used for crimes if they’re criminalized! 😁. Or people not doing drugs if they’re illegal…or wait, was the idea now that it somehow helps them quit if they legalize everything? 🥴 🤦🏻

Then I’m a click baiter as charged! 🤣

Oh it’ll probably be a few years before I actually do this. Got a few other things in the works on a limited budget, regarding money but even more so regarding TIME! At this present juncture I’m a full time post secondary student with a full time job and a 6 year old son, five year old son...

If I had the twist rate I’d experiment with heavies too, the 134 eld m seems like a winner. But as is, I’m sticking to the original 25 cal magnum idea which isn’t a true “long range” set up but an intermediate range hold-on-hair lazer beam. Anything farther than 500-600 yards I’m boring and...

Always cool to see what pushing the envelope can teach us. Whether that’s with 180 grain quarter bore bullets or quarter bore cartridges with powder charges that weigh more than the bullet! 🤣🤣🤣

I certainly could do that but was leaning towards building it on a savage 111 magnum action…or the 111 standard. Either way, the savage bolt heads can be easily swapped one way or the other. It is also of zero consequence to me if this is a single feed only rifle. I almost certainly won’t...

They’re not exactly rare but they’re not common where I live either: a shooting and hunting friend of mine is different than most of us, he wanted to whittle his rifle collection down, not expand it, to the bare bones of utility. But not in your usual .30-06 or .243s, he handloads, he likes...

Would a ball powder like us869 help that issue too?

Tell ya what Phil, I’m still probably gonna go the long belted magnum route…for round 1 😁😁😁. This pipe is long enough to try a few different things haha, maybe once I shoot the throat out I’ll set it back 4-6 inches and build a .25-300 wsm or something like that off it next

Fantastic! And yes that is old school and no doubt a lot more gratifying than hitting it with a scoped rifle chambered in a modern magnum of some kind. Much more impressive. Plinking at longer targets with a basic .22 or my dad’s old .30-30 is among the most fun I ever have. It’s no...

Very easy on the eyes

A former pastor of mine always said if it’s worth saying it’s worth repeating!!! 😝 I certainly haven’t rules the stw out but at present it’s not at the top simply because it seems a heck of lot easier to obtain 300 wby brass than stw or 8mag brass (I’d prefer 65-300 but that’s much harder to...